Do you know of Klinger Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Klinger Lake. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Klinger Lake.
Our sources for Klinger Lake (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Klinger Lake other than they indicate that Klinger Lake would be found somewhere in Saint Joseph County, Michigan.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Klinger Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Klinger Lake:
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Klinger Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)
Published by Greyhound Bus Lines
New York Central Railroad Time Table (April 1950)
Published by New York Central Railroad
New York Central Railroad Time Table (June 1941)
Published by New York Central Railroad
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Klinger Lake.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/43660 (Place Name: Klinger Lake)
County: St. Joseph (FIPS State/County: 26/149)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Klinger Lake) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Saint Joseph County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Saint Joseph County.